Wendy’s making strides to help foster children find permanent families

Since 1992, the Wendy’s restaurant chain has been working to raise adoption awareness through the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Adopted himself, Dave Thomas knew first-hand the need for adoption awareness, especially today when tens of thousands of teens are aging out of the foster care system in America every year without ever being welcomed by an adoptive family. These teens go into the world and the workforce without a family to call their own. The need for loving families seeking older, or even troubled children is greater than ever. Wendy’s launched a TV commercial to promote its mission to abolish the term “unadoptable.” The Foundation sums up the message in this moving video:

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption contends that, rather than searching for children to fit adoption-seeking families, caseworkers should find families to fit the children in the foster care system. And their efforts have proven more effective than those of the average caseworker, with children and teens being two to three times more likely to be adopted through caseworkers associated with the Foundation.

Here is a transcript of the video: